Saturday, 22 July 2017

107. General Economy of the Three Grand Divisions

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI
FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra,
M.A.

107. GENERAL ECONOMY
OF THE THREE GRAND DIVISIONS

164.
So far as the regions of the first grand division are concerned, very little is
required to be stated here. They are within the purview of the infinite Supreme
Being and constitute His own region, as it were. At the time of creation, the
spiritual regions were so spiritualized b the currents of spirit and sound that
they do not stand in need of any further spiritualization. The residual
pre-creational admixture of spirituality of lower order left during the first
creational stage was eliminated at the commencement of the next creational step
downwards, and the purely spiritual regions, as already stated before, are now
perfect in every respect, needing no change or addition in consequence of lapse
of time. Compared to the other two grand divisions, the expanse of the purely
spiritual regions is immense. The case of the other two grand divisions of
creation is different. Their spirituality is not so complete as to enable them
to work independently, that is, without assistance. Brahmas and Adyas has to
be presented in turn before purely spiritual regions to receive the necessary
help. This is the cause of the revolution of Brahmanda round the Sat Loka,
the proper distance between Brahmanda
and the purely spiritual regions being maintained during the course of the
revolution in consequence of the contrary influence exercised by the nether
regions below it. The nature of the relation of Brahmanda to the spiritual region, as described above, also obtains
between the third grand division and Brahmanda.
The third division is revolving round Brahmanda
and deriving help therefrom as in the previous case. The tendency of Brahmanda and the third grand division,
is however, all towards the extreme nether pole, as Brahmanda is situated in that portion of the pre-creational neutral
zone (vide Article 91) which adjoined the original nether pole. The continued
action of the tendency, referred to, results in a constant downflow of
spirituality, which is eagerly absorbed by the nether regions which are so
devoid of spirituality as sand is devoid of moisture. Those regions are,
however, from their pre-creational constitution, unfit to retain for any
considerable length of time spirituality of a higher degree than that
originally allotted to them. The
spirituality which has been collecting, so to say, from the continuous
downflow, evaporates, as it were, and another current, upwards, is established.
This upward current serves an extremely ameliorating purpose, specially in the
third division of creation; for along with it, the denizens of the infernal
regions and of the lower spheres of the third grand division ascend to higher
planes; but this current cannot go beyond the topmost spheres of the third
division, and the highest point to which any entity may reach by this natural
process of elevation is the moon-sphere. There the circle is completed by the
two currents, and the downward course commences again. This circle is known as
the chakra of chaurasi, and no one can get beyond it unless he is specially
trained for access into higher regions. We have been speaking here generally of
the regions of Brahmanda and Pind as a whole. We would now give
further details of the conditions of individual solar and Brahma systems (i.e. of one Pind
and one Brahmanda only) of the third
and second grand divisions respectively.